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Surgical Lung Volume Reduction

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Emphysema is a progressive and debilitating disease associated with a high rate of morbidity and mortality as a result of respiratory failure. Medical therapy and pulmonary rehabilitation are useful palliative treatment options and can temporarily improve symptoms. However, they do not alter much the natural history of the disease. End-stage emphysema markedly limits the quality of life and survival of patients. Two surgical procedures are well established: lung volume reduction surgery (LVRS) and lung transplantation (LTX). Different endoscopic procedures using endobronchial valves or airway bypasses[1–3] are novel methods showing promising short-term results, but long-term evaluation and randomised trials are necessary to evaluate these methods.

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  1. Division of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital of Zurich, Raemistr.100 CH- 8091, Zurich, Switzerland

    Walter Weder M.D.

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  1. Pulmonary, Critical Care,, and Sleep Medicine, St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, 1 Deaconess Rd. CC 540, Boston, 02215, Massachusetts, USA

    Armin Ernst

  2. Department of Pneumology and, University of Heidelberg, 5 Amalienstr., Heidelberg, 69126, Germany

    Felix JF Herth

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Weder, W. (2013). Surgical Lung Volume Reduction. In: Ernst, A., Herth, F. (eds) Principles and Practice of Interventional Pulmonology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4292-9_50

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